AMERICAblog: Why does AP have McFournier even covering the presidential race?
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
I think that the AP is far from concerned about appearance of impropriety, in fact I believe they actually like the idea of fostering such a sham. In doing so they not only safely ensure their own goodies will be continued IF the McCain group is elected, but they will also get front row seats (and preference) for any future news event.
The appearance of impropriety is for babies (or so they believe), after all it's the survival of the fittest (and the most well connected).
Gary SF
· 1 year ago
It has nothing to do with "impropriety." It has everything to do with the MSM manufacturing the news to justify their existence. The majority of Americans actually care about 'the issues' but all we get is bullshit about 'character,' - who we'd like to have a beer with, how many houses someone has, what their preacher said, etc. While I am not a Chomsky groupie, this interview discusses this issue: http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18257 The problem is that nobody is discussing the long-term effect of 'dumbing-down' of us by the crap that is 'reported.' There is an entire segment of a generation lost to Fox News, Rush and the like. At one time, their views were marginalized by our culture. But repeated over and over and provided 'mainstream' infrastructure (ie cable TV), these views are now 'centrist' and they are poisoning the pond.
ADLEED
· 1 year ago
Hagel's very positive press release on Biden's selection should blunt Fournier"s article. The news cycle though the weekend and convention will be well dominated by Obama & Co. McCain sipping come coffee will be indisposed at one on his homes. Pick a number!
FightForJustice
· 1 year ago
Mydd.com did an article on this as well and ask its readers to write politely but firmly to request that this once fine news organization get back to reporting the news. Just for the heck of it, to see if there were any journalists or editors left at AP with a shred of integrity and the power to fight for a DC bureau that used sources and facts as opposed to opinions within the body of news story, I wrote to ask for diligent fairness in their reporting of the presidential race. Waste of time probably, but worth the five minutes to ask.
Funny how these instances of blatant bias at AP are always in the Repig direction - Fournier, Pickler, etc.
The majority of Americans actually care about 'the issues' but all we get is bullshit about 'character,' - who we'd like to have a beer with, how many houses someone has, what their preacher said, etc.
Not the majority of Americans, but a good portion of the mouth-breathers who decide elections. Last weekend, Obama gave intelligent, measured responses that actually answered Rick Warren's questions and was hooted down by his Porpoise-Driven Republican-War-Jeebus flock in favor of red-meat proudly-ignorant canned stump-speech sound bites from McThuselah.
Many people just want to hear feel-good fantasies about simple answers delivered in belligerent sound-bites in 4th-grade vocabulary that doesn't feel threatening to their limited intellect. I don't know how you turn that around.
What we can do is starting working the refs -- blasting reporters' email every time they act like BBQ fanboys. They're conditioned to angry responses; the pompous often take it as a misguided sign they're "doing their job". Instead point out that they look ridiculous and unserious and professionally pathetic.
jr
· 1 year ago
Associated McPress being the Associated McPress. The donuts and coffee taste good in Sedona
Liza
· 1 year ago
Why are they allowed to cover the presidential race?
Because folks like Armando at TalkLeft think his reporting is solid gold.
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
And as I recall, TalkLeft was pro-Clinton and anti-Obama.
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
Obama must be lacking in confidence because the Bush administration has accepted his plan for pulling out of Iraq and going back to what they first started in Afhanistan, right?
mirth
· 1 year ago
Pffffft on AP and Fournier. McClatchy is the place for unbiased reporting and today they have this cheering article.
I feel a landslide coming on...
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
Even David Broder, "the dean of columnists" who gets my goat many a time, said that Biden was a brilliant choice. And yes you are right about McClatchy. How do we make them the number one news service?
pilgrim_billy99
· 1 year ago
Call AP and ask them.The number is 800-845-8450.
anarchy
· 1 year ago
the concept of "conflict of interest" seems to have been voided some years ago.
let's just face the facts: most people in America are too stupid to have an opinion of their own so they need others to spoon-feed one to them so that they can feel they "have opinions" too.
unplug your TV, use that newspaper to line the catbox, and pay no attention to anything that anybody tries to tell you!
USE YOUR OWN BRAIN FOR A CHANGE.
dommyluc
· 1 year ago
My friends, Ron Fournier is a sprinkly donut chompin' asshole who doesn't even have the common sense to marry a drug-stealin' beer-shillin' homewrecker. What kind of a fucking journamalist is that?
nicho
· 1 year ago
The AP is just a newsletter for the corporatocracy. It is owned by the corporate media giants.
The chairman of the board Dean Singleton is to ethical journalism what Saddam Hussein was to Jeffersonian democracy.
Singleton was the one, after all, who referred publicly to "Obama bin Laden."
csnet
· 1 year ago
"Ron Fournier has covered national politics for The Associated Press for nearly 20 years", AP's silly Editor's Note at the bottom of that ridiculous column, doesn't fool anyone one bit.
Everyone knows Ron Fournier is a pen name for Don Asmussen, the really, really, really, really, really, really Bad Reporter:
I have written both the AP website and Fournier's boss. The question here is one of balance. I have asked for all columns that speak well of democrats to be sent to me. Analysis implies that there is good and bad. Fournier always produces the bad on the democrats and the great and wonderful on McCain. I have also requested the columns he has written on McCain. If there is no bias, I think it will be clear for all to see, and I, for one, will be pleased to say so. After reading his remarks on CLinton, Edwards, and Obama as well as on Biden, I fail to see that happening. I'll let you know if the columns come. Please keep asking for proof that this man analyzes politics rather than writes opinions on it. Tell AP to put him somewhere else on the paper. This is supposed to be a NEWS source, not a political arm.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Face it, the AP has become the old Soviet Union's PRAVDA.
Seriously, the AP needs to hire all the old Soviet Union reporters and they won't have to train them to be lap dogs for the Republicans in power.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Which comes first, rabies or being a Republican? Has any scientist done any research on this?
Stevious
· 1 year ago
It puts AP articles about the election in a whole new light. It's hard to read an article today about the Obama/Biden ticket that doesn't include McCain talking points or criticism.
LYCEJ08
· 1 year ago
These candidates give us no choice. They are both wrong for America! Our vote will be against the other one, not a vote for a candidate. Obama wants to tax and spend and McCain wants to borrow money, raise our national debt and put it on our future generations to pay it back. Obama is the most liberal politician in the senate and has no experience on Foreign Policy. McCain,s Foreign Policy is from The Vietnam War. He is too old and believes we can win the war in Iraq. God help us. The media wanted Obama to run and the peoples' choice was negated. There are no easy decisions. As a nation running scared we are going to allow drilling in Alaska. God Forbid!. We have to sacrifice now in spending, tighten our belts, hunker down, get serious. Our legacy to our future generations look mighty grim, if we don't change our entitlement thinging. One of the most immportant responsibilities our next pesident will face is picking supreme court judges. The direction of our country depends on it.. I trust McCain with that decision and for that reason, I will vote for him.saw their TV ads in http://pollclash.com
All Comments
The appearance of impropriety is for babies (or so they believe), after all it's the survival of the fittest (and the most well connected).
info@ap.org
The majority of Americans actually care about 'the issues' but all we get is bullshit about 'character,' - who we'd like to have a beer with, how many houses someone has, what their preacher said, etc.
Not the majority of Americans, but a good portion of the mouth-breathers who decide elections. Last weekend, Obama gave intelligent, measured responses that actually answered Rick Warren's questions and was hooted down by his Porpoise-Driven Republican-War-Jeebus flock in favor of red-meat proudly-ignorant canned stump-speech sound bites from McThuselah.
Many people just want to hear feel-good fantasies about simple answers delivered in belligerent sound-bites in 4th-grade vocabulary that doesn't feel threatening to their limited intellect. I don't know how you turn that around.
What we can do is starting working the refs -- blasting reporters' email every time they act like BBQ fanboys. They're conditioned to angry responses; the pompous often take it as a misguided sign they're "doing their job". Instead point out that they look ridiculous and unserious and professionally pathetic.
Because folks like Armando at TalkLeft think his reporting is solid gold.
I feel a landslide coming on...
been voided some years ago.
let's just face the facts: most people in America
are too stupid to have an opinion of their own
so they need others to spoon-feed one to them
so that they can feel they "have opinions" too.
unplug your TV, use that newspaper to line the
catbox, and pay no attention to anything that
anybody tries to tell you!
USE YOUR OWN BRAIN FOR A CHANGE.
The chairman of the board Dean Singleton is to ethical journalism what Saddam Hussein was to Jeffersonian democracy.
Singleton was the one, after all, who referred publicly to "Obama bin Laden."
Everyone knows Ron Fournier is a pen name for Don Asmussen, the really, really, really, really, really, really Bad Reporter:
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/asmussen/
Seriously, the AP needs to hire all the old Soviet Union reporters and they won't have to train them to be lap dogs for the Republicans in power.